Meritocracy – or Something Better

How Technology can free human beings A 10 minute clip from the movie Zeitgeist: Addendum. (see below) Jacques Fresco explains his ideal world that incorporates a resource-based system: Current capital systems are by their very nature fascist and exploitative. Up until now, human labor has been necessary in order to provide products and services, but…

Here are some of the main principles of a future, post-capitalist society. A. Earth’s available resources need to be managed in order to: 1– Guarantee economic and environmental sustainability 2– Provide comprehensive basic needs for all as a standard package: a. Food b. Accommodation (shelter, furnishing, power) including information services – TV and Internet…

The Economics of Star Trek Rick Webb has posted very interesting thoughts on the economics of Star Trek and describes it as a Proto Post-Scarcity Economy. See also: What is the economic system of the Star Trek Federation? [https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-economic-system-of-the-Star-Trek-Federation]

Is a Meritocracy inevitable? Meritocracy – due to its application in the past – has often had negative connotation. The problem has always been: who gets to determine the criteria for merit and what the criteria are. In order to get mankind to accept such a system, it all comes to: The criteria for merit…